(Chronological, descriptive history of the property from its construction through at least the historic period - preferably to the present)

The present-day Lausanne Hall stands on the site of another earlier Willa-mette University building also called Lausanne Hall, it was originally the home of Chloe Clark Willson, an early Methodist teacher, and was moved to the Willamette campus. There it served as the main building for women's studies when Willamette was divided into men's and women's schools between 1888 and 1919. The old wooden building was razed in 1919 and the present-day Lausanne Hall built for a new women's dormitory. A major fund-raising effort raised the money for its construction; instrumental in that campaign was Professor Earnest C. Richards, a former Methodist minister with many acquaintances interested in the development of Willamette University.